UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN editorials
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October 22,1979
Recognition not crucial
A question of semantics may have kept the newly formed Classified Senate from being officially recognized by the University administration last week, but members of the Senate aren't upset. And the results unconcerned attitude is simple enough—they didn't really lose anything.
Although the administration did not want to recognize the Senate because of the risk of "officially recognized" groups converting to unions in the future, it did "acknowledge the existence" of the Senate.
THE CLASSIFIED Senate will now have the use of University rooms after hours, a better chance to voice their grievances to the University and the state Legislature and a good chance to influence the University governance body.
All the Senate needs to become part
of that governance body is the Student and Faculty senate's recognition. The Student Senate already has done so.
About the only thing that the Classified Senate won't have is the ease in forming a union that a recognized body has. When an employer recognizes an employee group as a unit, a labor union can simply call for a vote in that employee unit to decide whether to form a union.
THE LOSS of that convenience is irrelevant to the Senate, however, as it has professed a strong disinterest in forming a union.
The administration may have an affinity for avoiding conflict—even remote possibilities of conflicts—but it has given the Senate most what it wanted and needed—a voice in the University community.
The 1,300 classified employees who will be represented by the Senate are finding they can have a say about the laws and issues, as a privilege they lacked in the past.
Regardless of semantics, the classified employees have won a voice in their future.
Fall's vibrant spirit
The heat, the hovering canop of late summer, has been pushed rudely aside by the encroaching cold. The long summer days have be clipped at both dawn and dusk as darkness restablishes its authority.
walls or buildings. They are waiting for the children who will put down their school books and play in the piles.
The leaves on campus feel the twinge of cold air and react violently, exploding silently into rich shades of orange and yellow and red. They then fall aimlessly to the ground, their role in nature's scheme have been fulfilled. They swirl along the ground, only occasionally lifted into the autumn air by a gust of wind. They huddle in fluffy piles against hedges or
In the town, pumpkins lie in unsoid clusters, their potential identity lost without the decorative carving. In homes the pumpkins add to the spirit of the season by sitting in windows that reflect sunlight, known as the traffic rubbles by outside.
The cool air signals a return of sweaters and sandlot football and Halloween. It is a time for turning your face into the cool breeze and stuffing your hands deep into your pockets for warmth. It is autumn.
Tallgrass park foes motivated by politics
For many years, Kansas ranchers and environmentalists about the need for a tallgrass prairie park in the state, and it appears as though the fight isn't over. What's next?
Last week report. Larry Winn, R-Kan,
introduced a bill in the U.S House of
Representatives to create the Tallgrass
Prairie National Park Reserve that would cover 574,000 acres and stretch into northern Kansas to northern Oklahoma.
BUT IT is time that Whittaker, and our state officials against the project, continue to push for a stronger terms of what is best for it and not what is best to insure its aue-
As soon as Winn made his proposal, he received stiff opposition from Rep. Sanders, who said he would fight the bill because his 8th District constituent, many of whom own a school district, would
Although Whittaker argues that the current landowners are protecting the natural beauty of the land, we have no assurance that this always will be the case.
What a prarie park bill would do is provide that assurance without taking land from owners before they are willing to sell.
Wittaker's arguments against the primary reason for his opposition probably the potential devastating effect it would have on his next election bid if he supra-
HE SAYS that ranchers and farmers would have to "hand over" thousands of cattle to the state, a cattle and raise their crops elsewhere. He also contends that if the prairie were set aside, it would either become a "no" for cattle and other livestock or with "cattle shops and hot dog stands."
"Either way," he says, "Kansas loses."
But does Kansas really lose if the park is created? That depends on what one
John COLUMNIST fischer
means by loss. If one means, as Whittier money, then there is a loss. But if one considers what it means in terms of the environment and nature's beauty, there
And although Whittaker says the landowners would have to "hand over" their land, it isn't quite that simple. The landowners were asked by the men, as them proposed in the Wim bill, and it would buy it only when the landowners had agreed to acquire it and take decades to acquire all of the land.
But the setting aside of this land should not be considered only in terms of money or whether it will be used extensively. Rather, attention should be focused on preservation of the prairie, one of the last lands preserved of natural beauty in our country.
It is this unfortunate use of "hand over" and other bad choices of words, in most cases purposely done, that has given movement and others like it a new flavor.
If one refuses to take this outlook toward the creation of the park, then it is better to protect the mountains or forests that could instead be mined for important resources.
TRUE, the prairie of Kansas doesn't have the same splendor of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado nor the aesthetic beauty of the Redwood forests in California, but it still has a beautiful allure and no money value can be assented to it.
Kansas is one of the few states left that can boast an environment that has not been greatly affected by man, and we should try to be it that way.
The protection of the Kansas prairie is needed now before it is too late.
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Carter, Bush show early strength
How about George Bush and Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election?
If this past week's caucus and poll results are any indication, then such a matchup between the two candidates in the Democratic caucus elections in Florida, and Bush, not generally considered one of the top Republican candidates, won a vote of choice among GOP leaders in a dinner cup.
While the meanings of the two victories have been debated, the fact remains that they may be good indicators of the course the presidential election may take over the next few months. Carter's win in Florida has been especially baffled because of the president's power and popularity than many people are willing to admit.
TRUE, THE results were a little ambiguous, as both Carter and Ted Kennedy's workers claimed certain victories and that there were some revealing trends. But there were some revealing trends.
First, it must be kept in mind that Florida is not a typical Southern state. If critics thought they were checking the Florida results to see whether Carter still has the support of his native section, they were wrong. Or maybe they were only wicked.
The rural areas of the state, especially in
the northern part of the state, are composed of Southerners, born and bred with an interest in the South. That is not so in many of the large cities.
david COLUMNIST preston
Florida has become a state heavily populated with Northerners who have migrated to Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and Tampa. One has to search to find a native Floridian living in the well-populated area of St. Augustine (ft. Ft. Lauderdale). Instead, one finds many residents from the New England states, especially New York.
THIS GEOGRAPHICAL fact made the news last week when a pected in the rural areas, where he could on heavy support from the genuine audience, was showing in Dade County. After pollers last Wednesday, Carter held an edge over Kennett in the balloting for the 188 congressional race.
A Carter win in Dade County proves that he can still gain the support of a large percentage of the Jews, Hispanics and blacks who live in the cities. Those groups,
together with the large number of Northerners in the county, are traditionally attracted to the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party. But not to Ted Kennedy.
Kennedy did win in several large cities, but the loss in Dade was a dishearring setback for the Kennedy organizers in the state.
THIS CONCLUSION may be drawn: Kennedy workers have gotten together a competent, if not overwhelmingly powerful, organization in their fight to draft the senator into the race and unset Carter. In the first demonstration show of political power that month, they were against the incumbent with workers who already have run a successful campaign.
But more important, the supposedly falling Carter has shown that he still has enough clout and a strong enough organization to win not only the rural vote, but also the urban, traditional Democratic votes. The conservers had all but conceded to Kennedy.
states since he announced his candidacy.
This past week in Iowa, an early caucus
state, he won a victory over the GPO field by
placing first in a poll taken at a party fund
Even in Carter should hold off the bid by Kennedy, he would have to be looking over his shoulder, hoping that he was not seeing a plane crashing, or a hurricane, this time from the Republican side.
BUSH HAS been working steadily to organize well in key primary and caucus
Bush won 35 percent of the vote, placing himself well ahead of second-place John Connally who finished with 15 percent. Robert Dole was third with 14 percent.
Democratic nominee named Carter was a similar poll at a Democratic fundraiser and the victory propelled him into the public eye and gave him a campaign of a tremendous boost.
IN SPITE of a Da Moines Register poll that shows Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Howard Baker as the GOP leaders, the Iowa victory for Bush will be important to voters. The Republican news show that the former Republican national chairman has organized well in key places.
Perhaps the results of these two contests will in no way reflect what is going to happen as the presidential race gets into full swing. But I do doubt it.
Carter has just proven to many people that he still has the kind of people needed to organize and run a good campaign. Kennedy and his people are in for a tough fight.
And maybe Bush will have the most effective campaign organization. Carter did in 1976.
Kenny Hayden
GSC Executive Coordinator
PHASE I of the Legal Services program
Legal Aid transition should be gradual
When the Legal Services program was researched, many programs from different universities were taken into consideration. In some cases, the program also waited while other programs immediately dealt with litigation. In our investigation, it has been found that programs that immediately moved into litigation proved to be unsuccessful. Thus instead of providing legal services, those programs did not take a comprehensive legal Services program cannot successfully survive without carefully studying each campus' needs and utilizing the appropriate legal, such as the program here at KU.
In regard to the Kanssan editorial on Oct. 17, "Legal Aid Lacking," I feel some clarification needs to be made.
It is my impression that the Kansas is pushing for immediate implementation of Phase I of the Legal Services program.
To the Editor:
Union Bookstore 'security' deplorable
To the Editor:
Someone came into my office today to tell me that the textbook section of the Kansas Union Bookstore is closed to the public. I asked him to block my way. I asked the student employee behind the table why the barrier was there. He said, "The barrier is 'inventory and security.' When I asked him how long this situation would last, he said, 'You should be able to him to be more specific, but he wouldn't."
I then asked if I could go behind the table and see what was on the computer, in browser, or two students behind it. Two students behind them they knew just what books they wanted and just where they were denied access. A teacher told me not to look at the computer.
When I returned to the table, I asked what would be allowed behind it. The employee at the computer browsed the browsers but he then said that he wasn't supposed to allow anyone, even
While I'm at it, I might say that the Bookstore's cosmetic philosophy is typical of KU as a whole.
A CURIOUS anomaly may be seen:
Browsers may look at the books; buyers
may not. But when one thinks about it, it
is not so curious: 1) Inventory—books have to be there to be counted. Browsers don't disturb the count; buyers do. The ideal state is that they are sold by the book selling; 2) Security—people who say they want to buy books really want to steal them.
If this situation is to last for only two or three days while the books are counted, fine. But if it is to continue then some must be replaced. If it is to continue it is typical of the continuing deterioration of Bookstore services. The upper part of the Bookstore was remodeled in 1978. Then it was re-remodeled in 1979. But nothing has been to improve (or even retain) services.
has been a very successful one, and in fact has received positive feedback from students who have taken advantage of that and that of the Legal Services Board, the Legal Services program is ready to move into Phase II, but it will be in an intermediate phase.mediate. Phase II can be successful if the transition is a gradual one instead of an immediate one such as the Kansan
The transition to Phase II must be carefully administered to, and the needs of the campus are to be investigated before the students can move forward with allocating $20,000 more of the students' money into a program that needs to prove itself in its gradual change into a professional education. And other student leaders are "sacred" to move into Phase II is definitely a bad display of journalism, is being used inappropriately, or not having the backbone for making radical decisions, which in effect could turn out to be disastrous for the Legal Services department.
Boh Rocha
I FEEL IT is time for the administration to give its approval for a gradual transition to Phase II.
I is my feeling that Phase II should start at the beginning of the second semester with which the Student is the student in the defendant and is represented in court. The Legal Services office also would monitor the cases of the student. If the student has been determined, the Legal Services office can efficiently estimate the needs of the student toward a comprehensive Legal Service. With the implementation of Phase II at the beginning of the second semester, the impact of Phase II be felt by April 15.
Acting Chairman Legal Services Board Kansas City, Ks., senior
With careful investigation, the transition can be successfully administered, but to immediately move into Phase II if such a phase would have a negative effect on the program.
African investments promote legal racism
The KU Endowment Association invests some $7 million in corporations that operate outside the United States. The investment is based on apartheid-South Africa's legalized racism where skin color is used to determine job opportunities.
To the Editor:
There are 18.6 million blacks and 4.3 million whites in South Africa. Education is racially segregated. Schooling is compulsory and free for white children, voluntary and expensive for black children. Health care is racially segregated. There is a huge gap between the 44,000 blacks (1977 United Nations estimate) the list sees on and on.
This apartheid system entenches economic inequality. By exploiting black labor and attracting foreign economic capital, the apartheid system enjoys one of the highest living standards in
the world. Although blacks constitute 72 percent of the work force, they only receive 23 percent of the income. Whites make up 18 percent of the work force, resulting in 67 percent of all new incapital capita incomes in 1977 for blacks was $30.70 and $248.40 for whites. Black workers are confined to the lowest paid categories of the workforce due to access to technical and vocational training.
At the heart of the apartheid policy are the homelands. The government claims that these lands were taken from which came from an officially designated "homeland." These homelands are the most desolate, least developed and least white, with 13 percent of the land-whites own the other 87 percent. A family either starves there or the bread-bins are not in their homes. The "white" areas. This person is treated as a migrant in the white area, becoming an alien or a nationalist, stripped of all ambiance of citizenship.
To keep migrant workers ineligible for urban residents, all labor contracts and agreements must be one year, the worker must return to the bornean and register again with the labor union.
The United States is one of the foreign countries economically attracted to South Africa. After Britain, the United States is one of the largest donors. Have U.S. corporations been a progressive force against the maintenance of apartheid? According to a 1978 U.S. Senate report by the subcommittee on African affairs, U.S. governments have not been a progressive force.
After an extensive survey of corporations in South Africa, the report concluded: "Collectively, U.S. corporations operating in South Africa have made no significant impact on South African business, establishing company policies which would offer a limited but nevertheless important model of multinational responsibility. Rather the net effect of American investment has been to strengthen the corporate identity of South Africa's anarchist regime ...".
T. W. Khamble, a South African high school teacher, explained the importance of reply help, don't help. It stabilizes the government. When the economy is good the rulers can enforce their repressive policies.
Violence is inherent in the South African legal system. An Ancestral International Association, which is densely on political detainees, and that the government detainees do use. The report highlights that the highest rates of judicial executions in the 1970s-七十年 people were executed in 1976.<sup>1</sup>
A letter from a black South African amply illustrates the living conditions: "The situation here is rather tense. One never knows what is the morrow moving for us. Our house is quite small, but it is surrounded and the yards very small. Now the roof of my house is cement, the walls cement, the
floor cement. In winter these houses are frigid, in the summer an oven. No white in this country can ever be accommodated in them.
"This week we are told the rent will be raised. This is without electricity, the barbaric way of life should not be the order of the day. Humanity should be respected."
I urge everyone associated with KU-users, faculty, staff, admirer to write or email their comments disapproval of its continued investment in corporations operating in South Africa.
Laurie Brandt
Hillsboro sophomore
To the Editor:
I would like to make some corrections in Amy Hollowell's article on Zen in the Kansan.
Kansan's Zen story misrepresents group
In Zen, and generally in Buddhism, you do not follow anybody. You study with them. This is an important distinction. Two students of the Rinzai master Edo Roso, as well as being students of the Chogye master Seung Sahn. In Buddhist practice it is common, and in Zen expected, to study with more than one master. There are no gurus
The description of Soto Zen in the article is not a fair description and needs to be corrected. Soto students do teach meditation, but generally need more training. Certified as teachers. That is the local Soto group does not hold formal classes.
Chanting is part of Soto practice, but is less important. The introduction of Soto Zen in the 1980s led to a rise in Buddhist Buddhist practice, and Dogen, the man who brought Soto to Japan, was one of its first disciples.
Finally, Choyne and Rinzi Zen are not the only practice or historical background of the study but they are similar enough for students of one to generally feel comfortable. But I would ask that you see samurai—
Judv Roitman
Judy Kollman
Lawrence Chogye Zen Group
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